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Category: India
India

Oscars Put Outcasts in the Limelight

India celebrated Slumdog Millionaire’s sweeping success at the Academy Award ceremony. In addition to the movie by director Danny Boyle, which took home eight Oscars, Smile Pinki won for Best Documentary Short Subject, telling the story of a six-year-old girl from the village of Dabai in Uttar Pradesh who becomes a social outcast because of a cleft lip. From the victories of British director Boyle and US documentary maker Megan Mylan, few Indians received also an award: they were composer A.R. Rahman, singer Sampooran Singh Gulzar and sound designer Resul Pookutty.

Nirmala Carvalho
India

Cultural Dialogue And The Church’s Mission

The mission of the Catholic Church is evangelization of cultures and the inculturation of the faith through intercultural dialogue, a Vatican official recently stated at a seminar in India. Father Theodore Mascarenhas, who heads the Asia Desk in the Rome-based Pontifical Council for Culture, told seminar participants: “Evangelization for the Catholic Church means bringing the Good News into all the strata of humanity and, through its influence, transforming humanity from within.”

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India

A Warning Against Materialism

As India develops economically, its citizens face the temptation of putting money-making too high on the priority list, says the president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum. Cardinal Paul Cordes affirmed this during his five-day trip to India, which coincided with the plenary assembly of the bishops’ council.

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Science-Religion Dialogue Can Humanize Globalization

Science and religion together play a crucial role in humanizing and neutralizing the ill effects of globalization, two Indian Jesuit scholars contend. Religious values can give a human face to globalization by making people all over the world see themselves as members of a single society linked by global trade, technology and new socio-cultural concepts, they maintain. Fr. Job Kozhamthadam, president of Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth (Light of Knowledge University), a pontifical seminary, and Fr. Kuruvilla Pandikattu, associate director of Indian Institute of Science and Religion (IISR), presented their views at a recent seminar.

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Catholic Nuns Plan Theology Training

Catholic nuns in India are planning a theology research institute to empower women religious and redress the gender disparity in religious studies. The four-day annual plenary of the women’s section of the Conference of Religious proposed the initiative before it ended on January 1. About 350 major superiors representing more than 90,000 women religious gathered in Mangalore, 2,290 kilometers southwest of New Delhi, for the assembly.

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India

Pope Gets Top Green Rating

The environmental magazine Grist has rated Pope Benedict, who rides an electric popemobile and has installed solar power at the Vatican, as among the world’s top religious leaders on “green” issues.

Tricia Garcia
India

Campaign Against Tax Evasion

Bombay archdiocese in western India plans to launch a campaign against tax evasion. Father Anthony Charanghat, the archdiocesan spokesperson, said the world’s “socially unjust” tax havens, along with tax evasion by wealthy firms and individuals, directly affect the welfare of the poor.

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India

Boom Has A High Cost To The Poorest

Stripped of their dignity and deprived of their land, the poorest segments of the Indian population are getting nothing out of the country’s booming economy. Sometimes they are even forced to pay for it with their lives, according to Fr. Nithiya Sagayam, Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Justice, Peace and Development of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India.

Nirmala Carvalho (AsiaNews)
India

Anti-Christian Violence Harms The Country

Rising anti-Christian violence “is irrational and greatly harms the country’s development. It projects an image of an illiberal and fascist India which, in the long run, will destroy everything its people has created,” Msgr. Oswald Gracias said. As he talks about the recent big demonstration by Christian groups in protest against religious intolerance, the archbishop of Mumbai (the prelate who chairs the Indian Bishops’ Conference) does not mince words. Indeed, the latest events “have shown that India’s Christian community can no longer remain silent if it wants to ensure the safety of its members. I express my closeness to the demonstrators,” he explained. “Even though I could not be there in person I want to join my voice to that of all those who are demanding that the government protect minorities and safeguard citizens’ human rights.”

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